[PyQt] Is this the supported PyQt5 way to reset a flag?

[Phil Thompson]

On 8 Mar 2016, at 9:39 am, Damon Lynch <damonlynch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2016, at 6:29 am, Damon Lynch <damonlynch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The Qt 5 docs specify enum Qt::AlignmentFlag and flags Qt::Alignment.
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> > Obviously this is valid:
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> > layout.setAlignment(widget, Qt.AlignTop)
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> > But is this supported?
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> > layout.setAlignment(widget, Qt.AlignmentFlag())
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> > It has the effect of resetting the alignment flag, which is precisely what I want it to do.  Is that the supported way of resetting a flag? If this is already discussed in the docs please let me know as I've been unable to locate it.
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> Yes, or just pass 0. PyQt (for historical reasons) throws away much of the type safety that QFlags implements.
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> Passing 0 fails :
> TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
>   QLayout.setAlignment(QWidget, Qt.Alignment): argument 2 has unexpected type 'int'
>   QLayout.setAlignment(QLayout, Qt.Alignment): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QToggleView'
>   QLayout.setAlignment(Qt.Alignment): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QToggleView'

Whoops - shows you how much I know.

Phil